SAA 19 142. Letter to the Grand Vizier (CTN 5 p. 79)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) Your servant Iqipi: I would gladly die for the grand vizier, [m]y lord! Say to my lord: | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | (5) After I had prepared for journey the king's messenger, who raised high her ritual, and after he had left for the king, the oblates of Cutha and Ba[byl]on, ki[ng]’s men, arrived in the fortress [under] our [pro]tection. | |
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | uninscribed |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P393657/.